True so far as it goes t, but perhaps he was having a bad day, or perhaps back then he was one of those commentators who still felt the need to cut ICANN some slack, but have since wised up. I am thinking in particular of the Register UK (now with a US edition), which was content to accept the ICANN party line back then, but is now one of its more biting critics.

Cave has also been more critical of ICANN since that time, perhaps his earlier interview with Karl just over a fortnight after publication of his New Republic Online article fed him a clue. -g